Big Monitoring Fabric (Big Mon) Out-of-Band is the most intelligent, agile, and flexible security and monitoring fabric available for today’s data center. It enables network operators to monitor every flow by gaining complete visibility into every server, every rack, every location, and every type of traffic, including mobile/LTE, virtual, and cloud-native. Every tool, regardless of location, can receive real time copies of relevant network flows – all programmable through a single pane interface.

Big Mon Out-of-Band offers the functionality of traditional NPBs – receiving traffic from TAPs and SPAN ports and delivering to tools ­– with the added capabilities and advantages of a true software-defined networking (SDN) architecture. All traffic delivery rules, including packet aggregation and filtering, advanced packet handling, and flow generation are programmed through the controller. Tools can be centrally located, policies can be uniformly rolled out, and troubleshooting can be done with a few clicks. No need to manually map traffic to each tool. Tool policies set at the controller automatically map the right traffic to the right tool at the right time.

Scale and innovate faster

Reprogram policies in real time based on data center changes or newly discovered threats

Big Mon Out-of-Band shares the same controller as Big Mon Inline, which enables all tools (passive and active) to be managed from a single pane of glass. Network operators finally have the visibility they need to defend and monitor the data center, while enhancing operational efficiency and reducing OPEX by up to 50%.

Big Mon Out-of-Band combined with the BigSecure™ Architecture enables organizations to extend network visibility and security monitoring into dynamic, terabit-scale DMZ protection — so they can proactively defend the network, as well as ensure its high-performance.

Gain visibility into your mobile LTE network traffic with advanced packet handling that allows tools to monitor tunneled traffic. Traffic can also be delivered to tools based on customer or application.

Create unified monitoring and security policies across both physical and virtual traffic. Big Mon enables network operators to access traffic from VMs, containers and public clouds and direct this traffic to any monitoring or security tool.